methadone

[ponco]

Hi everyone good morn , im haveing a issue i think im craveing for pain pills, and i dont want to start all over again, with the pills im sure you all know what i mean. i miss the buzz, but havent had a buzz in years because building a tolerence to norcos and vikes,codine never did H. in a way i guess you can say methadone is close to H but anyways i know when im clean off this done that the codine would give me that buzz, i only have 15 tabs but when that runs out, than i know you know it wont stop at 15 tabs, and there we go again in that circle, back to done, no no no .to much to handle, why im haveing craveings when im still on methadone?

[VICourageous]

You are thinking about this too much there my friend...Just do the taper and stop...Just take those tylenols and flush them down..Your mind will play tricks on you..If it knows they are there it will hunt you..It already is..Just get rid of them and stick with what u have going on now...Try to get to some meetings they are very, very uplifting..I went 3 times before in my life..BUT this time I really, really understand my addiction..So like gnarly said.It is about your life now...Do not play on the merry-go-round, it has to stop or shut down sometime..Just re-direct yourself out of your self..Ok..Hang tight it WILL get better....
vickie

[EvolverU]

Hi!
     It's most likely that your cravings aren't physical but are mental/emotional. They're your Drug Of Choice. Methadone isn't. When you're maintained on Methadone you don't get that opiate high off it unless you double your dose or something. It was created to be a long acting 'steady state' drug. You might also be addicted to the ritual of copping -- of calling your dealer or getting and taking your meds. I know it might sound kind of crazy but when you have these cravings try to just sit w/ them and breathe slowly & deeply . Relax --You'll see that they pass if you don't struggle or engage them--that you don't have to respond to them just because they come up. If you can keep practicing this, if you can allow yourself the cravings w/o believing that you've got to act on them - they'll become less frequent. I promise you, you don't have to be a slave to these urges. It make take a little time but it does work.

                              All the best!
          

[ponco]

I know your right i use to go to a AA for my drinking, i know about the 12 step program, i have my big book aroun here somewhere. maybe i said it wrong what i was saying is that some people switch over to subs, and so on when there done detoxing, whicth is opiates, and i thought i could use the 15 tyn. 4s i have codine, if i needed to and then cut off, it was for if i was really sick on detox,

[gnarly_1]

HI John good to see you.......your looking for a cure in a pill and your not going to find it.....''the desire to get clean must exceed the desire to get high or this just wont work you like me and manny of us are addicts .....powerless to controll the uptake of narcotics it leads to instututions jails or death if not delt with .....addiction is a state of mind/brain just spend some time in the rooms of N/A for a wile and you will see all the simalartys you have with others.....you have the deisise of addiction ther is no cure you can treat it with a program of recovery no other way ....I highly recamend you emerge yourself in N/A  its free and if you work the 12 steps you can put this desiease in remitishine this will be a life or death desiion this is no joke this desase will take you where you never imagined and dont want to go you got to want out and want ont bad this is all up to the effort you put forth to getting well im out here if you want to talk I have been there and still am but just for today im clean....................Gnarly

[ponco]

thank you today tues. i decreased 5mgs so im down 24 mgs next tues. 19mgs thats the one that scares me, that magic num. 19 , but i came this far no stopping now. the weather here is crappy, in the 20s tomarrow to last year this time it was in the 80s but it was only suppose to be in the 40s. chicago weather is funky, i hope your doing fine?

[VICourageous]

You have been doing good!!! You were here before..You know what we say..Its that lil ol pleasure part of the brain that wants to play the "I feel good" tape over and over...We have to stay stronger then ever before to control our addiction...1 min to think of them then 1min to re-direct yourself..You r doing good..You have come a long ways...
vickie

[ponco]

i know your right going threw hell now to get off the meth, dont need to go threw wds off of pain pills low dose sets up craveings i will be ok its not worth it thanks man

[YesLife4Me]

Its normal to miss the high when tapering off since we are still putting them in our system, so the beast is fighting with us for control.  What's dangerous about it, is that if we have access to ANY kind of opiates, if we dwell on that thought, we will act on it.  You have been doing great tapering off the methadone and it would be throwing it all away to take even T3 af pills, after you reach your jumping off point.  There is no way to avoid even the minor wd symptoms after tapering off, nor the mental challenges afterwards.  You would have done all this for nothing if you took those and rewake your beast who will scream out "feed me".  Do t play with fire.  If you have those T3 pils now, flush them so they don't keep tempting you.  

[blotout]

ponco do not go back on pain pills that was the whole point of getting on methadone to get off the pain pills, i tried to switch from methadone to pain pills and i quit at 6mgs methadone and it took 50mgs of oxycodone to make me feel ok every 4-6hrs and your tolerence will build up fast, after 9 days i was taking anywhere from 150-200mgs a day which was costing me out the ***, and just so you know that tyl 3 are going to be like taking regular tylenol they arent going to do jack, thay wont give you a that buzz you want, why did you start methadone in the first place??

[jennlp29]

I am 9 days off methadone.  I had a 2yr opiate addixtion and then have spent the last 2yrs on methadone. .when I first started methadone I still did roxys for s week n a half and finally I told myself I wasn't helping n I stopped it took me over a month to feel ok on methadone I slept a lot. My husband went to jail like a month after I started methadone so I was stuck with my 3yr old son that cps had just gave back n I was trying to deal with addiction not a good environment. .I put my son in daycare my mother in law would pick us up drop me off at clini n take my son to daycare n I would sleep from 7am to 5pm when my son came home..it took about 2mths for my cravings to go away...if u r craving pills your dose is not stable...try calling your counselor or going to see ur counselor n talk about what ur feeling its what they r there for and u r noy alone stay strong u have already made the choice to get clean now you have to stay syrong to stay clean...sorry bout typos lol

[jennlp29]

How long have u been on methadone and what's your dose???